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Sunday, July 27th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with bass guide Mark Lasange (925-787-3474). Had a great time on the water. He is very knowledgable and answered all my questions about ishing the Delta. We caught about 30 to 35 ish today with a 19" striper bonus. Most o the ish came on crankbaits and were small. We had six ish over 2 lbs. 2 going 4 lbs. one on a rog and the other on a salt and pepper spinnerbait. The day ended with a 7lb. bass exploded on a white rog! On the hook or about 2 seconds enough time to get a good look at it and away it went. Kevin and I learned more in one trip than all o our own trips combined. Well worth the investment and a lot o un. Thanks again Mark!
      City: San bruno

      Tips: We had around 15 blow-ups on a rog. Fish it hard and you will get some o the better quality ish.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 6 A.M. It was beautiull till the wake bordes showed up! we ished the dam end didnt get a ish till 9: ound a honey hole and got 3 ish in 3 consecutive casts! the bigest was 3# the other were 2-lbs7oz.each. Thanks to Garry Yamamoto. I got 2 more ish and my buddy Kyle got 2 also. It got hot by 11: and we hit the road. Good day ishing or a dog day o summer!
      City: santa clara

      Tips: Tryed top waters and swim baits and nothing! Swiched to Senkos in plain colors no lake and no sparkels. Pay attention!

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at irst light throwing buzz bait & partner throwing minnow type top water. No takers so I switched to split shotting a 4" Yamamoto watermelon lat tail worm & boated two iteen inchers so partner started split shotting a 4" purple ghost and he boated a couple o 15 inchers and then he boated one about 4 lbs.. Continued split shotting and boating ish until 8 am and then the bite turned o. We had started ishing the banks starting on the let side o the dam. Moved to the bank near the no boat bouys and then another boat cut us o and started working towards us. When we got within 50' the other boater boated a ish that went about 7 lbs.. He was throwing a weightless Senko. Last ish we caught was a 3 lber. at about 11:30 am. Got hot enough to make us get o the water.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Split shot plastics early.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake at 5:00am with ish busting the surace all around us. We were not able to coax any ish into the boat with anything. We tried spooks, spinners, cranks and plastics, but nothing worked or us. We ended our day at 11:00am with only 4 dinks in the boat on spinners and cranks in 7 to 10 eet o water o the rocky shoreline in the shade. Better than the best day o work though!
      City: South Lake Tahoe

Saturday, July 26th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started @ 6 am in 14 mile slough. Caught several small ish on senkos. Just beore noon started catching small ish on a red rattle trap on the outsides o the weed lines. Had one blow up on a rog.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Temp: high 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started o roggin ended roggin. Caught two ish on about 8 blowups. Started by the boat ramp. Water is real shallow. First cast I had a blow but no take. Finally got to the cove by the bridge. Theres a circle o tules in about 1 oot o water. Almost impossible to get a cast in there. But I did my best to throw over the top and as soon as it lands. BOOM. A nice 3lb ish jumps all over it. I had no time to set the hook or give slack. The ish jumps out o the water and is gone. I was still pretty happy. Nice little excitement on a hot day.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Throw a rog catch a ish. Right now anyway.

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      Water Temp: Not Tested

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well I Tried ishing today 6:30 to 10:30 caught 2 bass dinks lost 1 trout got 2 bite at the same time its unny i was realing I yank my 1st then i saw my other pole i had to run coz its a bit ar. let and right reeling in then i called my rien glenn guess what while he was reeling one snap the 4lbs test P-Line then reeling 1 close to shore hook came o damnn lost both then i was getting late or work i pack and let i hope i could ish longer next week
      City: San Francisco

Friday, July 25th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: NOT BAD

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: AFTER BAND PRACTICE WITH MY BAND MALCONTENT,(I PLAY THE SAMPLER) I WENT FISHING FOR BASS. FIRST TIME OUT. I USUALLY FISH FOR CARP USING SWEETCORN. I REALIZED I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BASS FISHING, OR ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER BECAUSE I GOT SKUNKED. I JUST WATCHED BILL DANCE ONE DAY AND HE MADE IT LOOK SO EASY. I'LL TRY AND IMPROVE THIS CRAFT AND HOPEFULLY I'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT LATER.
      City: DIXON

      Tips: PATIENCE. AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Beaver, Hog, and Sycamore starting at 6:00A. The 3 o us would have had our limits beore 9:30A i we kept ish that were in the 12-13 inch range. Ended our day at 12:00P with 3 limits (big ish - 4.6lbs; 5 biggest - 12+ lbs). Caught over 25 legal size bass and lots o undersized bass.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: white or white/chartruese spinners inside the weed line during the high tide. Rat L Traps outside the weed line when tide was low. Tried drop shot or the irst time and caught a ew small bass. Will try it again next trip.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the loat tube out and started about 3pm.,went let rom the launch pad to big tule point.immediately hooked and lost a modest size keeper in the still water created by the grass beds on a black/bl.lk. senko.Tried a couple ew more casts and switched to buzzbait/terminator-chart./wht. and got one hookup that came unbuttoned,and a good explosion with no hookup.Ater about a zillion more casts on buzzbait I moved down the tule wall casting that same senko and caught a shaker and a 1.5pound keeper which ought like a much bigger ish [10lb. line].changed to Dominator blk/red lk. and brought in 3 more shakers one maybe a keeper,no willego board though.Finally at the end o the tule wall where the creek with bridge starts,I gently lipped that blk/red Dominator into tules , deadsticked it or about 30 seconds and landed a nice 5lb. beauty.All in all I`m satisied with action on a ew dierent baits and didn`t even touch my dropshot rig.Thanks to everyone who shares ino on this site.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Darker colored plastics,buzzbait when hot near grassbeds,catch and release.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey kotl guys do you have any room or another guy.im always reading your reports and i think i can hang with the big boys.j/k. but i not no tears here.do you just walk the lake or do you use boats/tubes?what days do you ish?or how long?do you win anything or is it just or un?i was walking my dog yesterday and i saw lots o little ish traped in the cove near the bridge i couldnt tell what they were but i think they were this years hatch.i hope not.but you got to let nature take its course or tell them not to lower the lake.

Thursday, July 24th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Orwood at 1:30 on Thursday aternoon. Spent the irst (2) hours pitching a rog into deep cover. Only (1) blow up which ended up in a 3.5lb ish hooked and released. Decided to give my arm a break and started pitching the trusty jig (red/Black with split tail) and caught (5) ish in a little over an hour...ish were 1.5 to 2lb class. Put jig down and worked the drop shot with a 15+ ish result most in the 1-2lb class. Finished the day throwing a wh/ch spinnerbait that claimed one 15 inch ish. All in all a good aternoon with little boat traic compared to what I was expecting. O the water by 6:00 PM
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Try a little 4-wheeling with your boat when throwing your rog. It's tough to get a perect presentation, but the ish are clearly close to shade i not deep into it. The other tip is to simply go ishing and try some deeper rock walls as they seem to produce consistently. To win a tourney top water is the ticket right now...to have un I'd throw the drop shot or jig. Stay Sae. TG

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tom, Aaron, and I all participated in KOTL VI today. For the irst time in KOTL history, someone pulled through with back to back wins...Me. Har Har! Fishing was interesting today. Just ater they got the lake level pretty much back up to ull, they lowered it about 4t in one day yesterday. It muddied up the water pretty good yesterday, but it cleared up a little bit today, but there was still no more than 2t visiblity tops anywhere. Anywho, like I said, I came in irst with 3 ish or 4-9, Tom came in 2nd with 2 ish or 2-8, and Aaron...well, he caught a lot o ish. Har Har. He can post a report about it i he wants to. d:o) I caught my 3 ish all on dierent stu...Spittin' Twitcher, drop-shot rig, and a buzzbait. My drop-shot ish happened to be a ish that I've caught 4 dierent times so ar this year. LoL. And he gains an ounce or two each time I catch him. heh.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: You can catch a ish doing just about anything this time o the year...

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 80-83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mooney ridge or about 3hrs on thursday and caught 7 ish on worms to 3lbs. Fish were all in 15 t or less with a couple in about 6 t . All the ish were in the trees.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: One on a spinnerbait and the rest on morning dawn worms. All ish were spitting up shad .

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Buddy and I got on the water a little ater 6am. Both o us threw poppers. He caught 10 ish up to 4lbs. He also lost one about 6lbs and had a couple huge blow-ups. A little quick on the strike. I got 16 ish with one being a 5.5lber, one 4lber, a couple in the 3.5lb range, and the rest 2lbs and under. All these ish were caught on the north end between 6am-9am. We had cloud cover and it even rained on us. A little ater 9am the sun came out and the bite died. I threw a rog rom 9 until 11am with two blow-ups. One ish was about 3lbs(missed the bait on the mat). The other ish was 5.5lbs and in open water next to the tules. Tried lippin between 11-12 with nada. Let at noon.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: The weed mats in the middle o the lake were holding the ish. Not to much action near the tules on the shore. The bite was probably helped by the ront we had move through and the cloud cover. Love that topwater Rico bite. This time they wanted the bait to sit or a while(5-10seconds). Good luck.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

  • Yuba County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: where are all the reports, is the ishing that bad here?

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake at two this aternoon just hoping to ind a ew ish...Well it was much better then expected. Found a wide open drop shot bite..Fishing was best on main lake humps..Shad are thick ron 10 to 15 eet..Fish were in the 12 to 20 oot range under and in the bait..
      City: sonora

      Tips: Drop shot in bait..Use your electronics and don't waste your time i the bait isn't there..Small shad colored worms best

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003

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      Water Temp: 80F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hot hot hot...but not the ishin'. I got 2 15"'s on top water..released them
      City: Monterey

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out couple days ago or about and hour or two in the back lakes.alot weeds back their now. ished a weed wall that went down to about 11 eet and caught 5 ish. only 2 o them were bigger than a 1.5. not bad or and hour o ishin.
      City: livermore

      Tips: start workin deeper as the sun gets higher

Monday, July 21st, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 84 - 81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Work was lousy so decided to make up or it by going night ishing. Fished rom 6 pm till 11 pm. Only picked up two dinks or a total o maybe 1.3 pounds. Fishing was dead. Tried topwater, worms, jigs, crankbaits and blads. I've experienced this same situation beore last year and was rewarded at 3 am by an 8 last year. Couldn't stay out so late this time.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: I don't know why the ishing was so bad. Perhaps because no moon in summer, or at least during a hot spell, means lousy ishing. Who knows. Try the underwater humps at 3 am - 5 am.